ａｎ - Ethnomusicology 2

The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film ca……続きを見る

The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocea……続きを見る

In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Fil……続きを見る

The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage’s (’silent’ piece) 4’33 . But much post-1970s musical endea……続きを見る

In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national musicーit’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been popu……続きを見る

"Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in before I fell ill nine years ago to a ……続きを見る

For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States……続きを見る

Kirin Narayan’s imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she be……続きを見る

In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment……続きを見る

Why has the female voiceーas the resonant incarnation of the female bodyーinspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from performing on the Chinese public stage? How have f……続きを見る

Questions of creativity, and particularly the processes which underlie creative performance or ’improvisation’, form some of the central areas of interest in current musicology. Yet the predominant ……続きを見る

Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agust?n Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco……続きを見る

Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' – conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today – ……続きを見る

The Music of Malaysia, first published in Malay in 1997 and followed by an English edition in 2004 is still the only history, appreciation and analysis of Malaysian music in its many and varied form……続きを見る

Este es un excelente trabajo sobre movimientos sociales y acción colectiva caracterizado por una gran sofisticación teórica y un impresionante vuelo conceptual. Aunque firmemente anclado a su discip……続きを見る

Más que un elemento accesorio que cambia con la moda, la música popular durante el siglo XX fue un aspecto esencial a través del cual América Latina construyó narraciones de sí misma y de lo que sig……続きを見る

Hay una forma de pensar diferente y complementaria a la ciencia; este libro trata de las bases coceptuales para ello. El autor se da a la tarea de ordenar la ideas y conceptos diversos sobre los que……続きを見る

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebeti……続きを見る

Arrullos y Currulaos es una investigación sobre la música tradicional del Pacífico sur colombiano que consta de un texto y unos archivos de audio y video. A partir de la interrelación del texto escr……続きを見る

Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of ……続きを見る

An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and……続きを見る

Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs whil……続きを見る

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultu……続きを見る

Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, churc……続きを見る

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Jo……続きを見る

In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed mus……続きを見る

With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic larg……続きを見る

Quando pensiamo all'America, musicalmente parlando, la nostra mente ci rimanda subito al jazz, al sax, alla musica dei sobborghi. Non saremmo, però, capaci di dare una chiara immagine di essa, di in……続きを見る

Un viaggio intorno a S. Cecilia attraverso la storia, l'arte e la musica. Il saggio ci porta alla scoperta della vita avventurosa di una santa, divenuta icona della Musica. Guida pratica per musicis……続きを見る

Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordi……続きを見る